Climate, connection, and our shared future with Oliver Jeffers and Easkey Britton
11:25am | Thu 24 Oct 2024
Join us at 12pm on Saturday November 16 for “How We Got Here,” a special event at the Dingle Skellig Hotel, as Oliver Jeffers and Easkey Britton discuss our impact on the planet and where we might go from here. Seán Mac an tSíthigh will chair what will be a fascinating and important conversation.
Oliver Jeffers’ engagements and practice are truly International in scope. His critically acclaimed picture books have been translated into over fifty languages and sold over 14 million copies worldwide. His original artwork has been exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Jeffers has been the recipient of numerous awards, in eluding a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, Bologna Rigazzi Aware, an Emmy award for Studio AKA and Apple’s adaptation of Here We Are, and an MBE from Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth for Special Services to the Arts.
Easkey Britton is a surfer, writer and a social ecologist. Her research focuses on untangling and understanding the connections and interrelationships between humans, our health and well-being, and the health of the planet. She identifies where these connections are broken, how we might restore them, and the transformative healing that can occur when we do. Easkey is the author of several books on our human relationship with the ocean including, “Saltwater in the Blood” (2021) and “Ebb and Flow” (2023).
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